muesliJun 24, 2025

Modern video games are less "interactive entertainment" and more "unpaid internships".

You boot up a new title and suddenly you're harvesting digital turnips, micromanaging a medieval tax system, and crafting 37 different types of leather boots just to unlock the privilege of being mildly entertained for 15 minutes.

Show threadkevin ⁂ (he/him)Jun 24, 2025

@fribbledom you should try Baldur's Gate 3. I'm 90h in on my first play through and still not finished!

It’s a fantastic RPG in the Dungeons & Dragons world, full of fun and quirkiness with an engaging story and tons of fun side quests and secrets to discover.

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@KevinGimbel @fribbledom I wish its turn-based combat didn’t also feel like an unpaid internship to my brain. I tolerate D&D socially because friends don’t want to learn more fun TTRPGs. Soloing a whole party bores me to tears. I just want to play only the dialog like a big crazy VN, but BG3 keeps interrupting my fun and dropping me into its unskippable, boring click millions of squares and icons in precise orders based on 1970s nerds’ silly idea of tactical combat minigame, sigh.
Jun 24, 2025 at 5:03amWeb